skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said the term is very fraught both in philosophy and the sciences. Many volumes have been written about this in philosophy (IMO the only correct outlet for the discussion) and there is no consensus on what to do with it.

My main problem with the notion of generalized intelligence (in philosophy; I have tons of problems with it in psychology) is it turns out to be rather arbitrary what counts towards general intelligence. Abstract thought and project planning seems to an essential component, but we have no idea how abstract thought and project planning goes on in non-human systems. In nature we have to look at the results and infer what the goals were with the behavior. No doubt we are missing a ton of intelligent behavior among several animals—maybe even pants and fungi—just because we don’t fully understand the goals of the organism.

That said though, I think our understanding of the natural world is pretty unparalleled by other species, and using this knowledge we have produced some very impressive intelligent behavior which no other species is capable of. But I have a hard time believing that humans are uniquely capable of this understanding nor of applying this understanding. For examples, elephants have shown they are capable of inter-generational knowledge and culture. I don’t know if elephants had access to the same instruments as we, that they would be able to pass this knowledge down generations on build up on them.
#4 the best imo, it's like having a very smart personal assistant that can meet (and sometimes exceed) you on your level when it comes to any topic.
Not always

With family, the further I get, the happier I am. They are what they are, and I can’t say I’m that interested in it.

I’ve replaced that with friends I can actually count on.
As much as I like your product, your message feels a bit too close to marketing spam in my book and I'd rather not have the HN comment section becoming full of such posts.

Keep up the good work though!
It’s awful. They absolutely need to introduce a toggle to turn it off.
More of us should be prioritizing making friends, probably: if you pull it off, you've achieved a similar effect at much lower cost. If you're the type of person who's organized and capable enough to organize a communal living space with your friends, you're logically also able to find friendships in your area, much more so than the average person is.
Why do you think these activities are obsolete? Meeting the other people face-to-face will always be nice, or not? And also playing together in the same room is much nicer than when you are separated.

I'm quite sure you will still be able to find such events, if you want to try. I know a couple of friends who still do that.

Speaking of something which has a similar feeling: There are the hacker events, such as the CCC, which is even right now: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/index.html

(Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend any of these since a while due to having small kids... But I definitely will join them sooner or later again. Maybe then with my kids.)

Also related: https://lanparty.house/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977)
I think it's simply illegal to build housing like Tokyo does in every US city, and often every project over 3 stories needs community input and faces environmental lawsuits over things like shadows
That's pretty much how it works now, except they are not logged publicly.
> "Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality".

I'm curious as to why you feel this needs to be true?

Or to put it another way, what would an AI structure look like to be more meaningfully connected to its function?

Not trying to flame. I always feel that I can't think quite deeply enough about these issues, so I'm worried that I'm missing something 'obvious'.
Is that the politically correct term for illiterate?
I would say that those attitudes are 99% caused by resource-related issues. There's a reason why drug abuse (and antisocial behavior generally) is mostly found among the lower classes.

If I could pick between the world we are in now and one where all the problems societies face that are related, directly or indirectly, to the distribution of resources are eliminated, I would pick the latter in a heartbeat. The "price to pay" in the form of a possible uptick in "degeneracy" during the first few months/years is worth it, not to mention that I doubt that problem would arise at all.
What I'm saying is that PGP is an implementation detail as far as pass is concerned. Should the pass developers choose to switch it out I don't think there would be much visible change to the users.
This is really cool. Nice job. How did you do it?
Yeah I mean, you are absolutely right at heart, but ...

Look, TikTok videos in the 90s would have been Americas Funniest Home videos (cute kids and pets doing silly things). Fast forward 20 years, those videos are not really the same anymore. You still have those videos, but you also have a lot more other stuff. America's Funniest Home videos (modern TikTok) is quite different now days.

As in, it's strikingly different where I would say it's an escalation and not an evolution. And maybe it's getting weirder simply because you really are not supposed to be there after awhile. We must grow out of things, truly.
This is the original article (paper). Do you mean one of the previous studies referenced? One of them (Suzuki et al[0]) makes it clear:

> Three months of mold-fermented cheese ingestion had beneficial effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels

[0]: https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(19)30518-3/abstract
> You clearly think Bevy and ECS as a choice for game development needs to be heavily motivated

I think if there are 2 approaches people should know both exist and if both are roughly 50:50 in terms of capabilities, then people should be able to weight them on their merits for their particular usecase.

Right now, the popularity is 98:2 in favor of Bevy and ECS compared to Fyrox and generational arenas. I obviously focus on promoting the less well known but equally (or more) capable choice and pointing out cases where the more popular choice is weak.

I admit this can appear one sided. But if you're so familiar with my reddit posts, you no doubt know that when people ask me for more in-depth analysis, I have no trouble being more balanced. I just don't see the point of saying where ECS and Bevy are good each time it comes up because people already think they're good everywhere. I focus on the stuff people don't know yet.

> everyone who knows Rust game engines knows exactly which engine you where talking about

My point exactly. If I was making stuff up, if my description did not represent the engine, then nobody would mind. But the description fits and people emotionally invested in the engine don't like it.

The engine can't change its past, but it can admit its faults and apologize for misleading people. It can stop making false promises. It can ask who donated because they expected an editor and return the money they donated. It can moderate its community. Even now, the best I could get out of Bevy and reddit moderators was them asking me to point new instances of harassment but they refused to punish people who have done it in the past.

The engine has also refused to make a public announcement that harassment of other projects is not acceptable.

Usually I am mocked when I point out several high profile rust gamedevs refuse(d) to publish their work on reddit because they were harassed. Your posts here demonstrate exactly the behavior that caused it and why the only approach to stop it is to publicly acknowledge it has a problem with entitlement and zealotry and create a culture in which the community polices itself.

But that's not gonna happen because that would damage its image and appearances are what that engine cares about the most.
Except not really. I'm still going to keep consuming art made by humans, even subconsciously, and I'm going to keep enjoying it. AI has no ground-truth for enjoyable content if not the successful works humans have made and tested already. Perhaps the quantity advantage has turned in favor of robots, but I'll be damned if you can name one AI-generated pop song that everyone knows by heart.

And truth be told - musicians are an excellent example of how a hostile industry can fuck over the working man long before AI enters the equation. Established musicians needed to be managed, and that management typically came from a label that would sign you if you weren't rich enough to go indie. Then, you're effectively contracted talent that has little to no ownership of your own life work. You are expected to provide all of the emotional gravitas while retaining none of the artistic control, and it only got worse in a digital era that further highlighted how valueless physical music had become. Artists had to make their money off tours and merch sales while simultaneously honoring arbitrary record deals demanding X amount of music over Y period of time.
> Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that power listeners had already discovered.

Do you have a source on this? Spotify also seems to employ a few different recomendation algorithms, for example Discover Weekly vs. continuing to play after a playlist ends. I'd be surprised if Discover Weekly didn't employ some sort of ML as it does recommend songs I have never heard before many times.
Would love to see the files or precut sheets released as the ultimate scale model kit. It'd be really awesome to take these files to a laser cutter and make the model out of thin aluminum sheets.
Do you have any legitimate sources for this information?
VW got caught because of their shit security but what is the situation with all other car makers?

The US does not have a GDPR so the collection of this information is legal. How much data is lying around at GM and others for someone to abuse?
> noncitizens in the U.S. should "automatically" get green cards when they graduate from college

Personally, I think this could be a great policy.
> If it's stored on your phone

What do you if your phone is stolen or broken?
Isn’t that by design?
There's only one tomato item and it's ND across the board? Agree on the other stuff, you shouldn't eat animal products because of the bioaccumulation issues.

I punched in all the stuff I ate this week and almost none of it is in their test. It's very skewed to weird processed stuff, there's only a few items from real produce markets.
> If you think of reading as one means of consumption of information then the ability to read may just be outdated, and people are moving to new forms of information consumption.

Im not sure that this is an accurate observation -- at least wholly accurate.

The implication being, "other forms of consuming information are equal to the desired end goal." Or perhaps more strongly, "other forms of consuming information are better at achieving the desired end goal."

For which, you'd have to define an end goal. If it's pure entertainment, I think I'd agree with the above.

But there are other important reasons to consume information, and I'm unconvinced that there is anything better than reading. Things such as synthesizing complex ideas and retention of information come to mind.

I realize this is unsubstantiated, there may be research into it. To me if feels self evident, but i can only offer anecdotal evidence to support it.
That rule is essentially about "what will get you in trouble politically". But today you have a fair number of large and monopolistic operations that just ignore such effects - the press is underfunded and corrupt and politicians are simply corrupt (in a broad sense).
Is it not the exact same concept underneath? An environment that provides a layer of abstraction by translating instructions into a standardized, transportable form that can be executed consistently, regardless of the underlying hardware or operating system?

I always thought that it made sense to use the word for both things, and I never even thought twice about it when people used it for programming languages.

It would have to be a very strange conversation for someone to misunderstand someone else in the way you mentioned.
I think the article is poorly titled, as it doesn't mean the end of paper passports. I can't see that happening in my lifetime - we still have checks and credit cards despite most young people just tapping their phone around.

I'm all for digitalizing documents as an option, but not if it means losing physical copies. So far the government has been on the side of not discarding them - we still get paper social security cards.
That's not how the GDPR works. Cariad may be a subcontractor (data processor in GDPR speak) for VW, but the driver does not have a contract with Cariad -- their contract is with VW (the data controller in GDPR speak). The data controller is always jointly liable with the processor for 3rd-party data breaches.
Dupe (162 points, 8 hours ago, 221 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061
Well, the parliament blessed this idea in 2017, so any time in 2025, the entry exit system will be operational. Public sector timelines are like that.
Seems like a pretty sweeping generalization to take from a single anecdote about how one person was confused by a bad UI.
This is just typical for science "journalism".

Take a study that only shows a correlation, and then write a clickbait article about causation.

The actual study says:

>Importantly, our study design has several limitations that limit causal inference and result in the possibility of other explanations, including unmeasured confounding from biological, social, or administrative factors. Firstly and perhaps most importantly, selection bias is possible because individuals who are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease may be less likely to enter or remain in memory intensive driving occupations such as taxi and ambulance driving.

>...

And

>Our large scale epidemiological findings raise novel questions about the linkage between taxi and ambulance driving and Alzheimer’s disease mortality. While these findings suggest a potential link between the demands of these occupations and reduced Alzheimer’s disease risk, this study design does not permit interpretation of a causal effect between occupations and risk of Alzheimer’s disease mortality or neurological changes in the hippocampus

I have noticed this for many years that when a study passes from the authors to science journalists to regular journalists to social media, information is lost at each level just like in Chinese whispers.
Does anyone know how to download the data for the charts in the study?

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194

The last one (9/9) has a download link, but none of the others do.
Death that isn't murder doesn't generally require someone else taking an action that kills you.

And while encouraging people to commit suicide may or may not be illegal depending on where you live, who it is, etc, it's generally not seen as moral.
Yeah I understand that the existence of the commutative diagram implies that it typechecks. I was trying to give OP a basic intuition for them. I should have said something like:

If you follow the two paths around the square you will find that everything typechecks correctly and both paths get you to the same result. This shows how the two paths are equal in some sense.
The article frames this issue with an older person looking back on their life and being glad they maintained lifelong friendships.

From a practicality standpoint making a new friend can be easier but it won't have the same spiritual and emotional connection as a lifelong one. If you are 80 a friendship of 60+ years will be something that invokes real satisfaction and lends depth to your life. Being friends with someone from down the street for 6 months doesn't really mean anything.
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don't forget software developers

I only ever required attribution

didn't stop OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Amazon shitting all over even that minimal condition

parasites
Jesus HN, it's a sweet drink. Y'all act like nobody eats cookies, candy, ice cream. Happy Birthday here's your kale salad.

The "ate like shit your whole life and are now overcorrecting in your 40s because you got consequences for the first time" energy is big in this thread.
Love it! I have my own minimal system for tracking my fitness, which I came to after that typical track of forgetting YAGNI implementing all sorts of features...that never got used, because of how complicated it got.

Simple systems are the best; go only for complicated systems if you're a professional and _need_ complicated tracking features. (And if that's needed, you might be better off hiring a manager to do the tracking anyway.)
> This is not the example that demonstrates abuse of the system.

I don't know how you can come to that conclusion. It's an example that demonstrates abuse, and "guard rails" (LOL) that are supposedly going to protect against future abuse.
Like when Zelensky announced that Russians killed all border guards on the Snake Island after one of them said "Russian warship, go fuck yourself".

First, Zelenskyy was just reacting to what the DPSU (State Border Guard Service) told him. And mostly likely what they reported was (at worst) a somewhat premature, but not unreasonable inference based on the information they had at the time.

This information being, at the time, the following facts: (1) The aggressor opened fire shortly after the guard patrol refused to surrender, and rightly told the warship what, precisely, it needed to do with itself; and (2) all contact with the patrol was lost shortly after that; and (3) before the close of the same day it was observed that all infrastructure on the island had been destroyed after an intense air and naval bombardment.

Further, there was a significant delay (about 48 hours -- in any case on the 26th, 2 days later) between the assault on the island, and the first indication by the DPSU that some of the personnel on the island might still be alive. In any case confirmation was not provided by the aggressor until the 28th.

Meanwhile Zelenskyy's statement was issued on the 25th, so entirely within this window in which the details were not fully known, but during which it was perfectly reasonable to assume the soldiers had most likely been killed, based on the information available. Plus the war had literally just started, and it wasn't like he didn't have a lot of other distractions at the time.

In sum: no story here, just the usual fog of war. Definitely not in the category of an intential deception ("one big lie") as you're making it out to be. And unlike the DPSU, you've had close to a full 3 years to catch up with the full story by now, so if anything it is your own less than forthright representation of the matter which should be raising eyebrows, in view of this context.

In this evil, awful, insanely stupid war, based entirely on lies from the very start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Island_campaign#/media/F...
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Here's the repo
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Aha, thanks for the explanation. Bit tedious to do manually, but helpful. Perhaps one day I'll sit down and attempt to make a greasemonkey script for that.
There is something special about looking at dated photos, even if they’re relatively banal. The lower fidelity corresponds with the fuzziness of memory, and is powerfully nostalgic if you lived though that time. I wonder if this effect will be lost as we enter an era where every photo is taken in high-definition on a high-quality camera phone, or if the improvement of sensors will continue to make older photos evocative.
"Urban" planning in the US is actually the art of urban destruction.

For nearly every maximum or minimum that the zoning and code sets, flipping the direction would be better. Have parking maximums instead of minimums. Have density minimums rather than maximums.

Make those who want to have too much parking get exceptions and be vetoed by a handful of people showing up on a Tuesday afternoon meeting. Let those who want the "luxury" of low density living in urban cores be the ones begging the neighborhood busybodies and control freaks for the chance to under build in prime locations.
That's the usual thing. You either cross the border before turning 18, or you have fathered three kids (surprisingly, they don't have to be from the same woman) or you have a special exception for special reasons and promise to be back.
I had to read the couplet-based cipher algorithm a few times, and this is supposed to make remembering a series of numbers EASIER???

A far more practical system is something like PAO which lets you compress 6 digits into a single image. These images can then be "virtually placed" within a memory palace. I've used it as a fun parlor trick to quickly memorize a random 50 digit number backwards and forwards.

https://artofmemory.com/blog/pao-system
Hmm, I've been going back and forth on what I think in response to this...

On the one hand, I do agree with you that anyone can come up with an unworkable proposal for a solution to any problem.

But on the other hand, most of the good people I've worked with would find it very unsatisfying to put forward an unworkable proposal and may well just be discouraged from reporting the issue at all.

But I think on balance we are probably more in agreement than I thought. I do think it's a useful exercise to encourage people to say "this is a problem, I don't really know how to fix it, my best idea is ____ but I'm not sure that will work because ____".

But I also think it's pretty hard to foster an environment where people of every seniority level feel comfortable doing that.
It is irony of all ironies that an accounting services company would be surprised about their own insolvency.

In reality, they had to have known for months. The director were probably just holding out for a Hail Mary funding injection.

This is bad bad business, especially for a financial services company.
A granular housing choice is a privilege not afforded to poor people. They live where they can, typically in places heavy with compromise.
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Don't cry for me, (Argentina).

When "God" tells you that you're merely dotting "i"s and crossing "t"s ... he's kind of correct.

But I was arrogant enough to believe that I was still a good researcher. I just wasn't "God."
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I wouldn't necessarily link reading comprehension level with willingness to read internet articles.

Personally, I'd like to think I have a reasonably high reading comprehension level, but I have a very low tolerance for long-winded articles, largely because the volume of articles is increasing over time, but the SnR is often extremely low.

I have finite and ever-shrinking time left (as do we all), so I wish more people would get to the point rather than add a bunch of filler to show off their writing skills.
"If everyone is telling me I'm wrong, then I must be right!", is also an interpretation.
Strange that kick seems to know and had time to build all this but customers didn't get any heads up?!
Does this control for taxi driver ethnicity?